"A new analysis of licensing data shows that not only is use of the GPL and other copyleft licenses continuing to decline, but the rate of disuse is actually accelerating." This shouldn't be surprising. The GPL is complex, and I honestly don't blame both individuals and companies opting for simpler, more straightforward licenses like BSD or MIT-like licenses.

"Why this refusal to go completely opensource, by people who for some reason, think that Microsoft or other company (Be) can do better than worldwide coders? "

As a programmer who contributes to an open source project and not a GPL advocate, I hate the GPL and refuse to contribute code to any project that uses it. It is a slap in the face to contribute code and not even be able to choose my own license. BSD/MIT/Apache are open source licenses. So what if Microsoft employees can use open source to make their projects better, you are helping out their programmers it isn't like Microsoft is this single evil guy who takes everyones source code while laughing maniacally.

"I hate Microsoft therefore everyone should use GPL" is such a stupid argument.

It is a slap in the face to contribute code and not even be able to choose my own license.

Are you daft? You can choose whatever licence you want for your code. Even if you contribute your code to a GPL licenced project you also licence that same code under any other licence, since it's yours.

If you are going to licence your code at all (though I seriously doubt you are a programmer in any shape or form) then you really need to look up copyright and how it corresponds to licencing as you seem to have no clue whatsoever.

I hate the GPL and refuse to contribute code to any project that uses it.

Quelle surprise! And right before that you claim it's stupid to hate Microsoft...